If you’re into Data Warehousing, you may be interested in attending to the workshop I’ll deliver at PASS Summit 2014 in Seattle on November 4th. http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/2014/Sessions/PreConferenceSessions.aspx The workshop is entirely dedicated Read More...

In the last month, I’ve been working on the slide deck of my Agile Data Warehousing workshop . In order to give to it additional value that goes beyond the pure technical aspects, and since now the “Agile” approach is becoming more and more mainstream Read More...

As you may have already learned from my old post or Adam’s or Kalen’s posts, there will be two SQL Rally in North Europe. In the Stockholm SQL Rally, with my friend Thomas Kejser , I’ll be delivering a pre-con on Data Warehouse Modeling: Data warehouses Read More...

Next months look full of interesting conferences and I’ll be speaking in several of those. I’ll be speaking at the following ones: SQL DAYS 17 – 18 September 2013, Germany http://www.sqldays.net/ SQL Saturday 260 Milano 8 October 2013, Italy http://www.sqlsaturday.com/260/eventhome.aspx Read More...

Yesterday has been published my Q&A interview on my Pre-Conference Workshop at SQL Pass 2012 . It’s a good way to understand what will be discussed in the workshop, so if you’re interested or you’re into the Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Read More...

I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll be delivering a Pre-Conference at PASS Summit 2012. I’ll speak about Business Intelligence again (as I did in 2010) but this time I’ll focus only on Data Warehouse, since it’s big topic even alone. I’ll discuss not Read More...

Just reading from all posts and tweets it’s quite clear that this year’s PASS has been a great success. Despite of the bad cold that I had from Monday , I’ve enjoyed it at lot. All the parties, the friends, the community and the great content make PASS Read More...

I’m very happy to announce that my proposal for the Spotlight session I’ve been invited to deliver at PASS 2011 has been accepted! Temporal Snapshot Fact Table You are designing a BI Solution and your customer ask you to keep a snapshot of the status Read More...

I’ve just released on SkyDrive ( http://bit.ly/ghPeaa ) all the demo material I’ve used in my BI Workshop at the PASS Summit. The zip file also contains the DLPC tool and the latest revision of the slide deck (only some minor syntax errors corrected). Read More...

I’ve returned from PASS 2010 on late sunday and yesterday I spent pretty much of the time just catching up with all the ongoing projects. I’ll probably need some more days on this, but for the beginning of the next week I’ll be able to answer all the Read More...

Many thanks to all who attented to my webcast on Monday. I really appreciated your feedbacks and I already got some very interesting suggestion that I’ll surely implement. If you have more feedbacks you can leave them here: http://speakerrate.com/talks/4577-adaptive-bi-engineering-a-bi-solution Read More...

If you’re still unsure if the workshop I’ll deliver at PASS Summit the next November - “Creating a BI solution from A to Z” - is a good choice for you or not, you can get some more details reading the brief interview here: PASS Summit Post-Con Preview Read More...

On the next 20th Semptember I’ll deliver a session on a topic that is IMHO really important but is not yet covered enough: Adaptive BI: Engineering a BI Solution Are you starting to create a BI solution....but where do you begin with? How to setup everything Read More...

I’ve always stated that creating a software solution is half and art and half an engineering process. Just like building an house, or a car, or any mechanical or electrical device, the art is that part of the work where someone has to create something Read More...

PASS Summit 2010 Pre & Post conference are out ! This year I’ll deliver the “ Creating BI Solution from A to Z ” seminar in which, as the title implies, attendees will see how to create a BI solution starting from scratch. Going through the dimensional Read More...